The MuckRock Foundation’s Sidekick is a toolkit of machine learning classifiers designed to help newsrooms and researchers sift through massive amounts of government documents.

ML and Automation: Implications on Labor

Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is developing a reporting project focused on the implications of machine learning and automation on work and labor, with a goal of determining who benefits from these technologies and how gains are distributed.

Legal Robot is using machine learning to quickly extract structured data from government contracts. This new toolset will be paired with a campaign to request millions of city, county and state-level contracts.

Tattle will leverage machine learning in a tool designed to identify misinformation on the WhatsApp platform. Tattle will apply ML in features frequently used for fact checking, including language detection and image matching.

Ethics of Algorithms and Automated Decision Making

Cheuqeado

Chequeado, an Argentina-based fact-checking organization, will investigate the ethics of algorithms and the implications of automated decision making for Latin America.